Mitra Sharafi is an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, with an affiliation appointment in history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She holds law degrees from the University of Cambridge (BA, 1998) and the University of Oxford (BCL, 1999), and history degrees from McGill University (BA, 1996) and Princeton University (PhD, 2006). She served as a Research Fellow at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, from 2005 to 2007. Sharafi's research has been supported and recognized by the Institute for Advanced Study (through the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation), the National